Draft GPUS Platform Amendment Womens Rights

Section title: Civil Rights and Equal Rights

Subsection title: Women's Rights

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Our position: Greens support equal rights for women; a woman's right to control her body shall not be compromised.

Our history has been marred with oppression of and brutality to women. The Green Party deplores male domination in all its forms -- sexism, inequality, discrimination, domestic violence, rape, trafficking and forced slavery.

We are committed to social and economic equality for women, reproductive rights and ending gender-based violence and oppression. We also support political equality of women in politics, government and leadership. That's one reason why we create gender-balanced positions in our internal party politics.

When women's voices are heard, we will be able to create a world based on grassroots democracy, social justice, sustainable economics, ecological wisdom and non-violence.

Green Solutions

a. Ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.

b. Equal representation of women in all levels of government.

c. Federal and state laws to achieve pay equity, and funding for the enforcement of such laws.

d. Reforms to end poverty and return dignity and opportunity to all mothers and their children.

e. Work places free from sexual harassment and job discrimination.

f. Laws that ensure that women have the choice to have a safe, legal, affordable, accessible abortion regardless of age and marital status.

g. We support safe, legal, affordable, accessible contraception choices regardless of age and marital status.

h. Contraception and abortion coverage in all health insurance policies.

i. Women's health care and family planning education readily available and accessible to everyone.

j. Public education programs to address the root cause of all violence including violence to women.

k. Ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women.

l. An end to international trafficking in humans.

m. Equal education for women in the United States and across the globe.